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Last week Israel conducted one of the most devastating, precise, and brilliant military operations in decades. Of course I am referring to Israeli operation codenamed Rising Lion, which unfolded in two distinct but mutually reinforcing acts. First came swarms of small explosive drones that Israeli commandos had reportedly pre-positioned inside Iran months earlier, striking air-defense radars and communications nodes, while decoying attention toward Tehran’s western approaches. Minutes later, over 200 Israeli fighter aircraft—many of them American made F-35s carrying standoff munitions—conducted precision strikes against more than 100 nuclear and military targets across Iran, including senior military leaders. The result was operational dislocation: Iranian early-warning networks were saturated by low-observable drones, senior commanders were killed or forced into hardened shelters, and decision-making channels fractured just as long-range penetrating fires arrived. This shock-and-awe approach by Israel explains the limited initial Iranian response, firing only 100 drones compared to the mixture of over 200 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles fired during Operation True Promise in April 2024.Israel absolutely smashed Iran’s nuclear program! We’re talking direct hits on underground military bunkers, top nuclear scientists taken out in their apartments, and dozens of Iran’s highest-ranking military officials — gone. One of them reportedly was Mohammad Bagheri, the commander-in-chief of their military, second only to the Ayatollah.And guess who helped pull it off? President Trump did — quietly, strategically, and with world-class misdirection!While the Iranians were stumbling around, Trump and Bibi Netanyahu ran a classic misdirection play. Publicly? Trump was “opposing” the strike. Privately? He gave the green light and was in direct coordination. They even staged a phone call to make it look like Trump was trying to rein Israel in — all while the jets were being fueled and targets locked in.Yes our President Trump significantly aided Israel in blindsiding Iran’s military brass, and eliminating their nuclear brain trust, and dismantling their missile response — all while pretending to be on the sidelines. That’s not chaos. That’s genius-level warfare and statesmanship!All total, over 170 strategic targets and 720+ military assets were destroyed. Iran’s political elite is fleeing to Russia, Qatar, and Oman. Ayatollah Khamenei himself is reportedly in hiding, begging for a ceasefire through third partiesUnfortunately neither Israel nor America has any other choice. The world cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran that has spent decades exporting terror.Sadly it was primarily Democrat weakness over the last 45 years that enabled this moment. From the Carter administration’s disastrous failure in 1979 to ever increasing, costly and embarrassing appeasement policies of Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden that allowed Iran to fund terror across the Middle East arming both Hamas and Hezbollah which in turn soundly contributed to the chaos that led to 9/11, the Gulf Wars. Iranian instigated global instability all the while deceptively and relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons in secret while the West negotiated.Now even Lebanon is prohibiting Hezbollah from launching attacks! That alone shows how shaken the region is.So America soundly and wisely sponsored Israel with approval, intelligence and technology in pulling the trigger and ultimately rebalancing the entire region all WITHOUT dragging America into a new war! Iran took the hardest punch it’s ever seen and Trump helped throw it, but it’s not over yet.The IDF says the attacks on Iran will continue until they are no longer a threat!